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Innovations in Hospital Architecture
Towards Creative Learning Spaces
Stephen Verderber, Clemson University, USA
Re-thinking the Architecture of Post-Compulsory Education
Jos Boys, University of Brighton, UK
This indispensable reference book captures key recent developments in the rapidly evolving field of sustainable hospital architecture. Today’s architects must provide hospitals which enable high quality care for diverse patient populations in carbon neutral care settings, and this book succinctly considers what needs to be done in order to meet that challenge.
This book includes twenty-eight case studies of built and unbuilt hospitals from around the world. These are grouped into five types – autonomous community based hospitals, children’s hospitals, rehabilitation and elderly care centres and hospitals, regional medical centre campuses, and visionary (unbuilt) projects. Beautifully and extensively illustrated with many photographs, diagrams, and floor plans, this is essential reading for all architects, planners, engineers, product manufacturers, clients, healthcare providers, and government agencies involved in the present and future of sustainable healthcare environments. Selected Contents: Part 1: Background 1. Introduction 2. Architecture for Health—A Brief History of Sustainability 3. The Evolving Role of Site, Landscape, and Nature 4. The Evolving Patient Room and PCU 5. The Evolving Role of Memory, Place, and Sustainability 6. Prognostications Part 2: Design 7. Designing for Hospital–Based Care Part 3: Case Studies March 2010: 276 x 219: 384pp: 86 line drawings, 31 halftones, 220 colour halftones Hb: 978-0-415-77795-7: £40.00 eBook: 978-0-203-85575-1 For more information, visit: www.routledge.com/9780415777957
rchitectural provision for the post-compulsory educational sector needs to develop A learning spaces based on greater clarity of, and creativity in, thinking. This re-thinking is essential to enable innovative design which comes from a better understanding of the relationships between built space and its occupying activities. Relevant both to architectural practice and to the education of the next generation of design students, the book develops frameworks and methods for understanding the everyday social and spatial practices of learning. In integrating issues of education, design and cost, this work supports a better understanding of how to make enhanced and sustainable spaces. The book is a wide-ranging and thought-provoking text which will inform both current debates and design projects, in a research area which is still very underdeveloped. Selected Contents: Introduction Part 1: Reviewing our Frames 1. Learning Spaces from an Educationalist Perspective 2. Learning Spaces from an Architectural Perspective 3. Learning Spaces from an Estates Management Perspective Part 2: Mapping the Terrain 4. Getting Beneath the Surface: Methods for Relating Learning and Space 5. On the Ground: Searching for the Student Experience 6. Tinkering with the Pieces: Exploring what Really ’Matters’ about Space Part 3: Shifting the Boundaries 7. Learning as a Transitional Space 8. Hybrid Spaces: Intersections between Objects, Online and Physical Environments 9. The ’Shape’ of the University 10. What would a Porous Campus Look Like? Conclusion: Towards Creative Learning Spaces September 2010: 234 x 156: 256pp: 25 illustrations, 25 halftones Hb: 978-0-415-57062-6: £95.00 Pb: 978-0-415-57064-0: £29.99 For more information, visit: www.routledge.com/9780415570640
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